To the Editor of the "Noxrn-Cursa Dany New:
Str,—-I am not, more blame to me, a subscriber to your amusing contemporary the " Echo de Chine," and it is only oconsionally that a happy chance brings it to my hands. The "Echo" man must accept this as an apology for my delay to answer the half-dozen questions he has put to me.
Where shall L begin? With his objection to any reference to the Commandments, or to any insinuation that awkward evidence may disappear?
But if a private individual annexes a public road, surely the 8th (or if the " Echo" prefers, the 7th) Commaniment may be quoted, especially when the individual in question Labels his encroaching landmarks Head Virtue Mall," and gives out that hi "object essentiet" is deport-r les hommes la vertu." As rey the insinuation. The Bishop received on 24th May a formal intimation that the Community regarded certain land as being a public road. The next day he began deliberately to obli the outlines of this road, il had been clear and dis he commenced to turn w twas left into a canal. Wha there between destroying itself close the documents he holds. The "eho" askes us when did he refuse? He refused first when the Chinaman Lu, from whom he bought last November Mr. Parker's former lots was sent, last January, by our one resident Consul to request their disclosure. He refused again in effect when the Committee of I'ublic Works wrote, on 19th May, ask him to remove his stones. He refused again in effect when on being given notice, on 22nd May, that a public meeting was being held the next day to enquire into recent encroachments on the Great Northern Road, he neglected to attend that meeting in person or by deputy. fe refused when, in reply to his complaint that he had not been asked to produce his proof—a very remarkable complaint under the circumstances—he was requested, in so many words to attend a second meeting and bring those proofs. Doubtless the "Echo will call these various requests "inconrenantes sommuations," holding, as it manifestly does, the extraordinary doctrine that a whole community, suffering from the action of one of its members, lias no right to call on that member to explain and justify his conduct, if only the offender happens to be French ers T must not take up much more space, but you will, I trust, allow me to yet again challenge the "Echo" to locate that 8 mow 1 fun cut off from a public road.
Tam, etc.,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.